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Read more about the article A Newcastle girl’s letters from the WW 1 home front

A Newcastle girl’s letters from the WW 1 home front

Doris Schuck was 16 years old and living in Newcastle East when "The Great War" broke out. Like most youngsters in the community at the time she was intensely patriotic and she paid particular attention to the fortunes of "Newcastle's Own" 35th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force, so often in the thick of fierce fighting on the Western Front in Europe. Living very close to Newcastle's Fort Scratchley - a relic of the Russian scare of the early 20th Century - she got to know quite a few young soldiers and she wrote to some…

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Read more about the article Under siege in a shark tank economy
Meanwhile, in the dentist's waiting room . . .

Under siege in a shark tank economy

Some days I feel under siege. From the system. From this hungry, greedy commercial society we live in. It feels like whichever way I turn, somebody is wanting to take a piece out of me, using whatever dishonest trickery they can bring to bear. I often have this feeling, in a general way, and it’s usually no more than an irritated awareness that the world can be a pretty dog-eat-dog place. But it boiled over recently, so I’m letting off steam by having a whinge to you. I hope you don’t mind too much. Mechanics. Twice…

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Read more about the article Radio operators in the 1955 flood
An army DUKW with flood refugees in Maitland during the 1955 flood crisis.

Radio operators in the 1955 flood

During the years I worked at The Newcastle Herald, I received many items of correspondence that I wasn't able to use. Often this material was very interesting, but if I had no immediate use for it (given that the newspaper was both selective and demanding about content and timing) it generally went into desk-top trays before migrating into filing cabinets. When I left the paper in 2015 brought home some boxes of this material which otherwise would have been disposed of. From time to time I dip into these old files - now in my home…

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